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Histoire de l'ornement russe du Xe au XVIe siècle d'après les manuscrits

by: Khudozhestvenno-promyshlennyĭ muzeĭ Imperatora Aleksandra II; Butovskïĭ, Viktor Ivanovich, 1815-1879?, writer of introduction; Khudozhestvenno-promyshlennyĭ muzeĭ Imperatora Aleksandra II

Publication date: 1870

Topics: Decoration and ornament, Decoration and ornament, Byzantine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine, Illumination of books and manuscripts

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French; Russian

Volume: 1

At head of title: Musée d'art et d'industrie de Moscow

Introduction signed: Victor de Boutovsky

Each volume contains 100 colored lithographs

Volume 2 published: Moskva : Tip. V. Gotve, na Kuznet︠s︡kom mostu, d. Torlet︠s︡kago

"Ainsi, l'ouvrage contient deux parties distinctes: la partie historique, donnant en grandeur véritable les fac-simile exacts des anciens ornements, et la partie didactique, représentant au trait les motifs d'ornementation qui peuvent en être tirés. Chacune de ces deux parties est composée de cent planches, disposées dans les même ordre chronologique et donnant d'histoire complète de l'ornement byzantin-russe ..."--Page 14, volume 1

Library's copy, volume 2, lacks Russian title page and comprises plates of "partie didactique" only